Artificial fuel.



UNITEn STATES Patented April 5, 1904.

PATENT O FICE.

ARTIFICIAL FUEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. '7 56,682, dated April 5, 1904.

Application filed September 26, 1903.

To all 11/71/0712, 211'; may concern:

Be it known that we, MAER Mos'oovirz and CAROLINE Mosoovrrz, citizens of the United States, residing at Greatfalls, in the county of Cascade and State of Montana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Artificial Fuel, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in artificial fuel, more especially used as a fire-kindler.

Said invention has for its object particularly to provide for the ready kindling of a fire, as in applying highly-combustible material to the usual fuel placed in a fire or combustion chamber of a stove or furnace or other place, said material then being fired.

The nature of said invention consists of the combination of certain ingredients'compounded substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed, and specifically pointed out by the claims concluding the following description.

In the practicing of this invention take one pound of paraffin, one pound of sulfur, two pounds of wheat-bran, and twenty-five drops of alcohol and mix them together, the same being amalgamated or united, however, without a heating action. The bran serves as a vehicle or bond between the other ingredients,

the whole being compressed into any suitable Serial No. 174,822. (No specimens.)

outlines, as will be readily appreciated, for placing the same on sale in stores or to pro- Vide for otherwise vending it.

Said compound or product while being highly combustible as one qualification for its intended purpose also has the requisite body to enable it to be sufficiently lasting to insure the effectual ignition of the fuel to which it may be applied.

Having thus described our invention, What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

1. A fire-kindler consisting of paraffin, sulfur, bran, and alcohol united or formed into a mass.

2. A fire-kindler consisting of one pound of parafiin, one pound of sulfur, two pounds of bran, and twenty-five drops of alcohol compressed into suitable form for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MAER MOSQOVITZ.

LAWRENCE M. MODONNELL. 

